Dalibor Grubačević is an award-winning Croatian composer of film and classical music. He has received several major professional awards in his country (the 2013 Porin in the Best Theatrical, Film, and/or TV Soundtrack category, for his music for the documentary series In Search of Marco Polo, and the Best Film Music award at the 19th Days of Croatian Cinema festival, for his music for the Nenad Puhovski documentary (Together). He is also a multifaceted artist of eclectic musical interests, whose work is best described by the contradictory label of an “unclassical classicist.” In his composition, he uses classical orchestration combined with electronic sounds and instrumentation. He is a full member of the Croatian Composers’ Society (HDS) and Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association (HZSU).
Beside film scores and feature, documentary, commercial, and corporate soundtracks, Grubacevic is interested in pop, rock, and ethno music as much as in classical writing. His concert pieces has been performed around the world, from Canada, the United States, Japan, England, Italy, Israel etc. Soundtrack composition, which has become his current stock in trade, begun with Grubacevic's well-received score for the 2006 children's feature The Ghost in the Swamp (2006), directed by Branko Istvancic. Their collaboration continued with the 2014 drama The Bridge at the End of the World (2014), based on an award-winning novel by Josip Mlakic.
Dalibor Grubacevic was born and educated in Koprivnica/Croatia. His musical beginnings came with the pop-rock band The Bugs, inspired by the music of The Beatles, whose music he has closely studied; the band recorded a studio album in the early 1990's. Later, Grubacevic studied classical composition under the private tutelage of Professor Natalija Imbrisak. In addition to his film and TV music, Grubacevic has had a long and fruitful career as an arranger for numerous Croatian and international artists.
Also worth noting are his scores for the 2016 feature Because of You (2016) directed by Angelo Jurkas and 2022 feature The Conversation (2022) directed by Dominik Sedlar, starring Caspar Phillipson and Dylan Turner.
